Publication of the United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pa Vol IV . FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1908. No. 21 7-/ + z - * ■3T " / ’ " / " y BOILER HOUSE - y - " » y J m i m i i i h i w i i n i l i w i w ' ffniinrivmmumi u— mi mi i ummwmmmmmmvmwmw mmwmw mmm tmm REMAINS OF POCAHONTAS 21. 1616, in the yard of the disused Church common for thpm to die in the unlawful which had been laid by Powhatan, her of St. Mary, which was situated at about pursuit of their desires. They will never father, to massacre the English colonists. The Bones of America’s First the spot in which the remains were found. admit themselves to be beaten, and are apt In it I have tried to express the woman’s Heroine Located after Teak in those days was a rare wood, and to think that shutting their eyes to danger self-sacrificing bravery, her unconsciousness Many Years no coffin would have be^n made of it except will do away with it. Self-restraint they of the heroic part she was playing, the tre­ on shipboard. The square copper nails also can sometimes show to the verge of martyr­ mendous love which prompted her action, were such as only a ship’s carpenter uses. dom. but nr re often than not they take and her appeal to Capt. Smith to fly and The recent announcement that the bones The earring might have served as a model the most selfish bent, and only show self- save his life. of Princess Pocahontas had been unearthed for that seen in the ear of Pocahontas in restraint when it is necessary to do so to “ A young Indian woman named Mono* at Gravesend, England, has been confirmed the famous painting that hangs in the Town gain something greater for themselves. lita posed for me for this figure. She was by the scientists who have been engaged in Hall at Gravesend, England, a bit of jewel­ The farther they are from the restraint of one of several Indian women I used for the examining the evidence. Almost coincident ry that is of unquestionable Indian design civilization the better. work. In these girls and especially in the with this interesting discovery has been an­ The skull discovered at Gravesend was SOME STRIKING CHARACTERISTICS little Monolita, I recognized instantly the other by the distinguished American sculp­ submitted without any information as to its “ The most striking characteristic is the classic, graceful lines. In the Indian garb tor, William Ordway Partridge, who has identity to Prof. Jessy, of South Kensing remarkable perceptive power. The mi­ the lines are somewhat lost, but in the clas­ found in an Indian girl, living in New York, ton, and to the Phrenological Institute, in nuteness of observation is entirely above sic draperies they are really wonderful. the ideal Indian woman’s figure and em­ London. Prof. Jessy made a long report, the usual average. There would be an ani­ “ In making the costume for the statue ployed her as the model for his statue of from which the following are a few extracts: mal-like sagacity, and the memory for loca­ I have taken the slightest possible liberty Pocahontas, which is to stand at Norfork, ‘ I judge the skull to be that of a woman. tion would be almost unbelievable. There with it. This liberty consists in opening Va. This statue has just been cast in The head is quite unlike what we usually would be something far more supernatural the jacket down the front. I have in my bronze. find among civilized nations, and I should in the feeling that the subject would give possession an Indian jacket lent to me by “ I believe that Americans do not realize expect the person when alive to be an ex­ one in life, and a dangerous magnetic power Col. Cody, and in this I dressed my model. what a superb and heroic character they tremist of the most unusual order. The an­ would most probably be the strongest trait, The- jacket belongs, of course, to a later hkve in Pocahontas.” said Mr. Partridge imal power would be far too strong for the a power which would be unreliable and un­ period than 1616, but to the same race of the other day. “ As the French sing the spiritual, and would lead to great eccentrici­ canny in its effects. I have one comfort Indians from which Pocahontas sprang. praises of their Jeanne d’Arc, so should we ties. The will power of the person would in giving this reading, and that is that the ‘In proportion and measurement the In ­ Americans sing those of our own heroine, only be matched by her won’ t power, and subject is too dead to take offense at my dian woman’s figure corresponds almost ex­ whose splendid bravery and devotion to she would submit to no authority but her conclusions.” actly to the classic Greek standards, and Capt. John Smith saved not only the life of own strange prejudices and erratic taste. The following extracts are taken from the when a sculptor or a psinter desires to that soldier of fortune, but the English col­ She would domineer over her own sex by report furnished by the Phrenological In­ work with a model of classic build, he will ony at Jamestown.” sheer .force, and over the opposite sex by her stitute: surely have to seek her among the abori­ America’ s national heroine has rested for cunning. I have only met her type among “ In life the individual possessed a fairly gines of America, for only there is to be nearly three hundred years in an unmarked Indians. Her craftiness would outweigh her l«rge osseous system, the bones were long, found real grace of posture, carriage and grave in England. Her bones were unearth­ ignorance in dealing with people of a more the joints were large and the shoulders and line, as it existed centuries ago in Athens. ed by the merest accident. It is not ab­ civilized type, and ner animal cunning would hips fairly broad, and in size and strength “ I cannot say what makes these young solutely certain that they are her bones, give her the victory over finer minds. Her of physique it would represent a North Indian women so perfect of figure, unless it but the evidence is stronger, in fact than love would be passionate, unreasonable and American Indian. The character was cour­ be their-unrestrained, natural life. One or that which identified the remains discover­ fiercely jealous. She would make self in­ ageous, and all the physical attributes two generations of such living could not pro­ ed by Ambassador Porter in Paris as those dulgence her own creed. Would be influ­ were very strong, but the mind and intel­ duce a figure of like proportions, suppleness of John Paul Jones. enced in a surprising way by music, and in lect were not above the average character. and beauty. This is a matter of healthy liv­ THE DISCOVERY her most rational moments would show clev­ It represents a strong character with more ing for generations, and a few gymnastic ex­ Workmen digging the foundations of a erness in the employment which she most feeling than reason, and more passion than ercises will not accomplish the result. Gym­ fence at Gravesend, near London, last sum­ entered into in a way that would go fa r to intellect.” nastics are unknown to the Indians, save mer came across a human skull and other redeem the savagery of other moods. I It is known that no other American Indi­ only the natural exercise of living and breath­ bones. Further search brought to light judge that the subject would hold nothing an was in England in 1616. Tuerefore it ing as the Creator intended. several square copper nails, three pieces of sacied which stood in the way of desire, and is morally certain that these are the relics “ The Indian woman’s figure is truly won­ iridescent glass, a thin tile backed w th any and all laws would be ignored in the of America’s national heroine. derful. It is the natural figure, the figure Roman cement, a pendant earring, some pursuit of power and self-employment. The characteristics of the highest type of of a woman who works and moves with bits of teikwood, a strand of black hair and “ The skull is one of the most puzzling I American Indian are wonderfully well set tightened and well-trained muscles; not of and the remains of strange copper orna­ have ever examined. The back-head sug­ forth by Prof. Jessy in his report on this One who lounges about in semi-languor, or ments, including a bracelet. gests a woman of a very strong mind, self­ skull, and it is interesting to read them in who works to develop her muscles independ­ Search of contemporary history and the esteem, and veneration and sublimity are connection with the remarks which the ently of each other. parish records revealed the following facts: rankly contradicted by the abnormally pas­ American sculptor, William Ordway Part “ I do not speak of the Indian of the South­ That Pocahontas, or Rebecca, to give her sionate animal nature. That is why I can­ ridge, makes about his Indian model. ern States, nor of the Western Indian, who the name by which she was baptized, the not class the skull among those of civilized “ In my statue of Pocahontas,” he said, is deteriorating into the fat and slovenly wife of Thomas Rolfe, died of smallpox on a nations.